When to Book Flights from San Francisco to Hong Kong

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Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $523 or less.

The cheapest flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong was found 43 days before departure, on average.

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Morning departure is around 17% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*. *Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

FAQs for Booking San Francisco to Hong Kong Flights

How long does a flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong take?

An average nonstop flight takes 14h 00m, covering a distance of 6914 miles.

How many flights are there between San Francisco and Hong Kong?

There are 307 (nonstop) flights between San Francisco and Hong Kong per week, averaging 43 per day.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from San Francisco to Hong Kong?

In the past 3 days, the cheapest round-trip tickets were found on Hong Kong Airlines ($438), Cathay Pacific ($472) and United Airlines ($488).

Do I need a passport to fly between San Francisco and Hong Kong?

Yes.

Which airlines fly most frequently between San Francisco and Hong Kong?

Cathay Pacific (11 times daily), American Airlines (10 times daily), Malaysia Airlines (7 times daily) are the most frequent flyers on this route.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly San Francisco to Hong Kong?

For San Francisco to Hong Kong, Monday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Friday is the most expensive. Flying from Hong Kong back to San Francisco, the best deals are generally found on Friday, with Wednesday being the most expensive.

Which airports will I be using when flying from San Francisco to Hong Kong?

When flying out of San Francisco you will be using San Francisco, often referred to as San Francisco Airport. You will be landing at Hong Kong Intl, also known as Hong Kong Airport.

Pros:
Absolutely nothing. This is one of if not the worst airlines worldwide.

Cons:
This airline would not even let me check in and board my flight. I had a delay on another airline getting to my flight, but was still at the check in counter 45 minutes before my scheduled departure. And was told i was not allowed to take the flight. So ridiculous. Worst customer service imaginable.

SFO

HKG

Mediocre 3.6

Cons:
Food is limited considering 17 hr flight

MNL

HKG

Excellent 8.0

Pros:
Good food
Cheap airfare considering it’s Dec.
Boarded/departed/arrived on time/ahead of time

Cons:
Leg room quite tight
Ipad instead of a built-in screen

HKG

LAX

Good 6.0

Pros:
It was fine

Cons:
The plane wasn't as new as the one on the way over and it would've been nice to have a bigger selection of movies. Also, they ran out of one of the meal options twice and the second vegetarian meal wasn't that great.

Cons:
Lounge in Chicago terrible...lounge near gate in HK was disgusting. The nice lounge closed too early.
The food was passable
The flight crew was mixed...a few nice ones, but most were unfriendly Ala American or BA
Bathrooms on plane not in great condition

SFO

HKG

Good 6.0

Pros:
Entertainment system

Cons:
The seats are not comfortable. My head kept rolling forward when sleeping because there was not enough recline. Couldn't sleep my entire 14 hour flight.

SFO

HKG

Excellent 9.6

Pros:
Service at every step and level.

Cons:
Nothing.

SFO

HKG

Good 6.4

Pros:
Flight attendants were pleasant.

Cons:
Poor selection of food; they ran out of the chicken entree! You should have more chicken entrees; have less beef entrees since a lot of people are avoiding beef!

Pros:
The boarding is well organised: providing clearly demarcated lanes for group 1, group 2,etc

Cons:
The Asian vegetarian meals are tasteless and only one snack — pretzels— available

LAX

SFO

Excellent 10.0

Pros:
Yes, I got upgraded.

SDF

IAD

Excellent 9.3

Pros:
Crew amazing, smooth flight and on-time

Cons:
Legroom and the fact that there is even s lower version of economy now! Yikes

IAH

SLC

Good 6.0

Cons:
The fight was fine. however on the flight to Houston they loaded one of my suitcases onto another flight. It arrived to late for me to get it before the ship left. Their customer service is horrible!!! They continually lied about where my luggage was. Never again!!!!!

SMF

LAX

Mediocre 2.0

Cons:
Crew attitude was poor. LA station crew was snarky and arrogant. Don’t know what it is, maybe it’s the people they have to deal with, but last three trips out of LA have been miserable.

Pros:
New "signature" business class is smaller than the old pod, but very functional layout.

Cons:
Food created by Chef Hawksworth is mediocre at best.

BDA

YYZ

Good 6.3

Pros:
The staff are friendly

Cons:
They didnt say any information to the passengers who had connecting flights. No one us that all passengers with connecting flight need to check out their luggages and check it in again. Now my luggage is lost..

Pros:
I really loved that the airline accommodated to me being vegan. They also provided me with vegan creamer if I wanted coffee which was great. The staff was also super friendly which was a big plus because they were easily approachable.

Cons:
They made me cancel my 6 month stay to a 30 day stay when I arrived at the airport, otherwise they would not allow me on the plane! They said I needed a vista for the length of stay which I always get when I am in Manila for the past 8-10 years that I have been going without any prior warning before I confirmed this booking! I was charged $500.00 to change the departure date! Outrageous!

ICN

ORD

Excellent 10.0

Pros:
To Vietnam

Cons:
None

SFO

ICN

Good 7.3

Cons:
4 hours layover plus 3 hours delay. Horrible.

SFO

ICN

Okay 4.0

Cons:
I’m regarded as disabled, usually I have TSA pre-check privilege in most of the airline I took before but unfortunately, I couldn’t get any from Asiana. The guy helped me on checking in told me that AsIan’s didn’t provide this service to the customer. I felt not quite happy but ok with this. The one made me feel upset is they didn’t give me pre-boarding even though they already noticed that I’m disabled. I needed to wait on the line for over 25 minutes, my left leg very tired. I can walk but I can’t stand for long time, it hurts my back and leg. I got almost same style Vegetarian food in both dinner and breakfast, all vegetables, no tofu at all.

Cons:
I am stranded in Bangkok because the
Flight you put me on violated China visa requirements. And I CANNOT get a hold of ANYONE to resolve issue.

PVG

LAX

Mediocre 3.0

Pros:
Front cabin business class

Cons:
Aircraft not clean, very filthy, food very poor, entertainment almost non-existent

NKG

HKT

Excellent 8.0

Pros:
We were well looked after by the cabin crew. They came through many times with food and beverage services as well as water. Seats were comfortable enough and there was plenty of room for our carry on luggage. Boarding was on the tarmac and a little chilly but very orderly. Moving through security and customs/immigration at the Nanjing airport is a bit disorganized for in transit passengers but we were patient and the ground staff were very organized and helpful once we were taken to check in.

PVG

YYZ

Excellent 8.4

Pros:
Crew worked hard in carrying out several meal and drink offerings. Seat had ample leg-room ( I am 6 ft tall)

PVG

LAX

Good 7.6

Pros:
Flight was on time and efficient.
Crew was polite, professional and efficient. In other legs of this trip the experience was not so good. On this leg, however, I noticed that the crew was very accommodating to the passengers and never seemed bothered by special requests.

Cons:
Food was okay. We ordered 4 different types of vegetarian meals, but only received on type of vegetarian meal.
Movie selection was not great, but I still appreciate that each seat has its own personal on demand video screen.

Cons:
It was all good, the crew were very accomodating and keeping us comfortable during the flight. It became uncofortable midflight because of one passenger, named Rachelle Marie Perez Herrera Lim sitting in 54 B started to complain about one female crew. She was unreasonable, unccoperative.

MNL

RUH

Mediocre 3.3

Pros:
Checking in took a very long time because we explored every option available to upgrade me to business class which turned out to be non-upgradable. By the time we finished, the staff was concerned that we might not make it to boarding time because my husband has limited mobility due to a back surgery a couple years ago. They suggested using a wheelchair to speed up the immigration and boarding process. We’re frequent travelers but why we never requested a wheelchair, I simply don’t know! But thanks to their wheelchair suggestion, we made the flight just in time.

Cons:
We bought my husband’s business class ticket back in May or so but because we weren’t sure where I was going to be, we couldn’t get me a ticket until a few weeks before our flight. Due to my unpredictable schedule, we opted for an economy ticket, thinking that it would be easy enough to upgrade me to business. We were wrong - my ticket turned out to be non-upgradable, which was ok for me. It was our first time to travel as husband and wife so it would’ve been nice to sit together, but I’m 5’0” and fit in the economy seat just fine anyway.
What was NOT ok was when we were boarded and were waiting for the plane to take off, I brought a lunch box of cut fruits to my husband. A flight attendant was introducing herself when I came so I said hi, but she completely ignored me. She even offered to chill the fruit in their fridge, for which I said thanks, but she didn’t even look at me; neither did another attendant who cheerfully offered him magazines. There were only 2 passengers in the business class so my husband suggested I sat next to him, but I declined and went back to my seat, promising to come say hi every once in a while during the 9-hour flight.
Fast forward to a couple hours later, I kept my word and came by. The flight attendant was quick in kicking me out saying I didn’t belong to business class so I had to go back to my seat. I did. My husband said to her that I was having period cramps (true) then followed me to my seat and sat with me for a bit until I asked him to go back to his seat so he could be more comfortable as he’s 6’2” and simply was too tall and the economy seats were too painful for his operated-on back.
Was I perhaps too short for the flight attendants to notice?!? I had to ask for a toiletries kit 3 times before they finally gave me one just before we landed after all! Obviously, those in the business class are treated like gods; those in the economy are second class citizens.

MNL

GUM

Mediocre 3.6

Pros:
The crew was great!

Cons:
PAL requires you to subscribe to their WiFi on flights without seat back entertainment, but no instructions were given how to do this.
PAL ‘s website is difficult to navigate.
Plane seats are very small

Pros:
I really enjoyed all of the amenities that HKG Airlines had . The seats were comfortable, the entertainment was great, the staff was very friendly. I loved their configuration of 1-2-1 for the seats.

Cons:
The entertainment system in my seat didn't work. The screen froze. I requested the hostess to reset. The entertainment screen didn't recover even after reset and was still frozen until the end of the trip. For 12 hours, I sat in my seat without an entertainment system which was very boring.

SFO

HKG

Excellent 8.0

Pros:
professional cabin staff & food selection

Cons:
middle seat because could not book in advance

SFO

HKG

Okay 5.3

Pros:
In flight entertainment was good.

Cons:
I chose Hindu meal and it was not good at all. They were giving the same super cold Salad at each meal service and no coffee or dessert was served with the meal either. Very disappointing.

SFO

HKG

Mediocre 2.0

Pros:
The plane was late for no reason. Missed my connection in Hong Kong. Cathay pacific gave me a voucher for 9usd, it was insulting and ill not fly with them again

Cons:
The plane was late for no reason. Missed my connection in Hong Kong. Cathay pacific gave me a voucher for 9usd, it was insulting and ill not fly with them again.

Cons:
But on the plane.
Food is totally terrible
The service on the plane is 2 stars because they cannot speak English well. And rude on the plane

HKG

LAX

Excellent 9.6

Pros:
You have earned a customer for life. The crew was fantastic, the plane was very new, and the entire process was easy. The fare was super cheap and a great value. Keep up the great work!

SFO

HKG

Mediocre 2.6

Pros:
Cheap ticket

Cons:
Flight delayed 7 hrs. We missed our flight to S Korea and also prior hotel reservation. The airline offered $15 food credit!
It is the worst experience ever! Don’t settle with cheap tickets because you will pay much more than that!!!

Pros:
The seats were comfortable with enough leg room even in Economy class. I was late to go through security check-in, but the flight waited for me to board the flight. The on-flight entertainment was excellent.

Cons:
I didn't like the food offered that much. Also, it seemed that the crew were not that good in coordinating among themselves and helping out passengers. There was not much option on drinks.

SFO

HKG

Okay 5.0

Pros:
The crew and staff were generally friendly and the food was fine.

Cons:
For the first time in thirteen years traveling with my guitar, I was forced to check in my guitar, potentially in violation of the US Department of Transportation's rule on musical instruments. While my guitar thankfully arrived in good condition, this caused an unnecessary amount of stress in my 24 total hours of travel. I'd highly advise Cathay Pacific to revise their inflexible stance towards musical instruments, as many passengers brought carry-on bags which were much larger than my guitar in its case.

SFO

HKG

Excellent 8.0

Pros:
Hospitality was good. PRO was excellent.

Cons:
Jain Vegetarian Food was not satisfactory. It requires improvement.

SFO

HKG

Okay 5.3

Cons:
unable to move around, seat was stiff, stuffy in the rear of the plane,

Pros:
Pleased that the flight departed on time and arrived 50 minutes early. Sad that waiting for my luggage frittered away the time we gained by arriving early.

Cons:
Having your bags tagged as “priority “ really doesn’t mean anything. Watched nearly two flights’ luggage go by on the carousel before mine came out. This is becoming the norm over the past several months for most airlines and airports.
I don’t mind waiting for my bags. I do mind waiting with a false expectation of priority service.

SFO

HKG

Excellent 10.0

Pros:
very comfortable.

Cons:

SFO

HKG

Mediocre 2.0

Cons:
Worst international trip I have taken in my 51 years. Was so cramped in my seat i literally could not move or reach for my things under my seat. Never again taking Cathay Pacific.

Pros:
New Airbus 350-900 with excellent nose wheel and tail forward view where we watched our takeoff and landing. Enough choices on entertainment system to satisfy one on a 15hr flight. Lots of self serve snacks and drinks mid-flight.

Cons:
Flying in economics but that was my choice and long 4hr layover in HKG

HKG

LAX

Excellent 9.6

Pros:
You have earned a customer for life. The crew was fantastic, the plane was very new, and the entire process was easy. The fare was super cheap and a great value. Keep up the great work!

SFO

HKG

Good 6.0

Pros:
Economy seats have decent leg room
Check-in in SFO was a breeze. Didn't have to wait in-line for a long period of time.

Pros:
I really enjoyed all of the amenities that HKG Airlines had . The seats were comfortable, the entertainment was great, the staff was very friendly. I loved their configuration of 1-2-1 for the seats.

Cons:
They lost my vegetarian food option and in return gave me a few cookies..

SFO

HKG

Excellent 8.0

Cons:
Better meals

SFO

HKG

Good 6.0

Pros:
Clean and roomy.

Cons:
Speak ok english and the customer service is just ok. Not as good as cathy pacific

LAX

HKG

Good 6.3

Cons:
Food was terrible for an international flight. Crew was tired and uninterested.

HKG

BKK

Okay 4.3

Cons:
The only food I ate all day were the two meals on Hong Kong airlines flights. On the flight from HK to BKK we were served a hot meal of Beef, rice and vegetables. At the time the vegetables tasted a little starnge but I was very hungry so I finished the meal. After arriving at my Bangkok hotel I started to feel unwell and by the evening I was repeatedly vomiting.

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